Sentence examples for skink from inspiring English sources

I don't bother peeling spuds destined for salad, hash browns or cullen skink and peel them after cooking when making gnocchi – hell, I even parboil roast potatoes along with their peelings.

Only 16% of the caged bushes had their petals ripped off, possibly by high winds battering them.Dr Olsson found no evidence of pollen being carried on a skink and so concluded that the lizards play no role in transporting honey-bush pollen from one flower to another.

The bush and the skink have thus co-evolved to help each other.

The snow skink needs warm, sunny weather to become active, so the honey-bush's petals are torn off only in such weather.

There are many geckos and lizards and several species of skinks, including a rare and endangered giant skink.

In contrast, females of some species, notably the five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus) of the United States and many of its relatives, remain with their eggs throughout the incubation time (about six weeks); they leave the clutch infrequently to feed.

Female sleepy lizards and those of the Baudin Island spiny-tailed skink (Egernia stokesii aethiops) recognize their own offspring on the basis of chemical signals.

Snake-eyed skink, any of about 35 species of lizards constituting two genera (Ablepharus and Cryptoblepharus) in the family Scincidae.

Most of the approximately 41 species from the genus Plestiodon have longitudinal stripes, although some, such as the Great Plains skink (P. obsoletus), have no stripes at all.

At first sight, this skink-savaging may not seem all that helpful to the honey-bush.

Following his initial catastrophic red-helicopter-and-blind-skink encounter with the Samatenje of Sadjunjira, Carr issued the shaman an invitation to visit Chitengo, gave him a grand welcome and free use of the bar, and sent him home a buddy.